Hardware grants in the Netherlands

Between cycles

Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.

Closed

Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.

Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.

Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build an open benchmarking framework for hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing systems.

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.

Closed

Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.

Funds research on near-zero-energy 6G IoT devices, unlicensed-band 6G connectivity, and next-generation connected IoT applications.

Closed

Funds development of affordable, SF6-free primary equipment — circuit breakers, cables and converters — for multi-terminal HVDC grids.

Funds up to four teams to build edge AI chip prototypes that combine real-time on-device learning with ultra-low power consumption.

Funds a coordination and support action to build structured EU-India cooperation on 6G research, connecting European and Indian industry, standards bodies and research programmes.

Closed

Funds small businesses developing defense training and simulation technologies through small innovation grants.

Closed

Funds a complete tunable 6G radio front-end module for 7–15 GHz, combining European microelectronics with low-energy operation.

Funds research on high-capacity, energy-efficient optical access networks and AI-managed optical architecture for the 6G transport layer.

Closed

Funds around three research projects, each worth up to EUR 5 million, to develop new materials for wearable and flexible electronics.

Funds two teams prototyping ultra-low-power edge AI chip designs, tested at TRL 6-7 for real-time on-device inference in battery-powered devices.

Funds one project to design a European front-end-module chipset for 6G radio in the FR3 (7-15 GHz) frequency range.

Closed

Funds a demonstrator for a multiband 4D radar that tracks range, direction and speed together for naval and future ground/air defence.

Closed

Funds research into an EU-built tactical data-link terminal so European forces stop depending on non-EU MIDS/Link 16 suppliers.

Funds up to four consortia building or improving open-source chip-design (EDA) tools for digital, analogue and mixed-signal design, released under an open-source licence.

Funds up to two teams building a high-performance RISC-V automotive hardware platform — processors, AI accelerators and the software tool-chain — for autonomous driving.

Funds one project to run the SNS JU's shared 6G experimental infrastructure for Phase 3, validating technologies from earlier SNS Stream B projects.

Closed

Funds teams in Germany through a continuous hormone-monitoring challenge for advanced sensor development.